From time to time the documents I’ve stumbled uppon in the Internet or people recommended me and I’ve considered as interesting were put on the server and announced afterwards in the blog. Things that seem interesting to me may also be of your interest. The same thing with the software from other places. On the [...]

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Introduction

This tutorial walks you through cracking WPA/WPA2 networks which use pre-shared keys. I recommend you do some background reading to better understand what WPA/WPA2 is. The Wiki links page has a WPA/WPA2 section. The best document describing WPA is Wi-Fi Security – WEP, WPA and WPA2. This is the link [...]

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It’s about time the steady monologues are finally over and visitors can participate or start discussions themselves. I have to move away from my self-centered position where the topics are given to you. To do so I decided lately to install a forum software and offering you a place where we can talk about computer [...]

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In the first part of this series I wrote about the different ways how attackers propagate malware by sending an infectious executable file or an USB memory stick to their victims or let them pick up an infected file in a file sharing network like emule or bittorrent.
In this article, as promised in the first [...]

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In the first part of this series we had a closer look at the basic precondition how an attacker prepares his own computer to eliminate telltale traces when surfing the Internet. In this second part we will go into the details how they connect to the Internet anonymously without leaving a betraying IP address which [...]

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When analyzing the code of a Trojan horse it often contains  methods  and functions that can be assigned to typical function groups and modules.  Even if the code and inner organisation seems to be chaotic and hard to understand because of  its structureless appearance you can assign a function to at least one of these [...]

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As already mentioned in a previous posting I stumbled upon an old proxy server code that attracted my attention again. Driven by the same idea as at the first time, out of curiosity how the spammers and hackers do their  job and who else is using this anonymizing srvices I modified and installed the script [...]

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It is a critical moment when hackers unleash their malware into the wild and have to get in touch with the outside world. They expose themselves for a short moment and risk to leave traceable tracks that may reveal their identity. We read and see regularly in the media malware is spreading successfully and [...]

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There were days when we were connected to the Internet without being afraid someone could intrude our computers and install malicious programs to steal our account and credit card information or accounting data from our computers. At least we thought so but actually that time never really existed somewhen in the year 1997, the [...]

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Malware propagation is one of the most fascinating parts of the attackers activities and is attracting, besides the anger of the affected people, the most attention. It is the part where all the magic of infection and intrusion happens, where attackers release the malicious software to the wild and try to infect new victim systems [...]

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